Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing How to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials, on Plain and Easy Principles

Ferguson, James

Verlag: A Strahan & T Cadell, London, 1790

Beschreibung

Text block only remaining, with title page being the first page and final page of text the last; no endpapers. Original boards are missing, a previous owner has fixed new cardboard boards, probably a failed re-binding project. Some yellowing and foxing to the pages, as would be expected with a book on this age, but otherwise still clean and tight. All nine of the folding plates are present, but two of them have tears (though with no damage to the diagrams thereon). Old (contemporary?) ink stamp on page 1 for Caledonian Literary Society, Aberdeen. Full title is "Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing How to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials, on Plain and Easy Principles. With several miscellaneous articles and new tables, I. For expeditiously computing the Time of any NEW of FULL MOON within the Limits of 6000 Years before and after the 18th Century. II. For graduating and examining the usual Lines on the SECTOR, PLAIN SCALE and GUNTER. To which is prefixed, A short Account of the Life of the Author". Originally published in 1773, this is a third edition from 1790. 272pp, 9 folding b&w diagrams. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 013355

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Select Mechanical Exercises: Shewing How to Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and Sun-Dials, on Plain and Easy Principles
• Verlag: A Strahan & T Cadell, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1790
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Poor
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Science & Technology